Course Details

vSphere 6.0 ICM Part Two Expert Live with Encore

Overview/Description
vSphere 6.0 Part Two is a continuation of course 1. In course 1, we focused upon the basic understanding of virtualization, its installation and management within the confines of a small environment. In course two we expand out into a larger environment and explore some of the advanced feature that provide business continuity solutions. We also explore advanced resource management, vSphere monitoring, design frameworks, and upgrade management within this course.

Prerequisites

To benefit fully from this course, the following prerequisite courses, skills, and knowledge are strongly recommended:

Comptia N+ knowledge base (equivalent or greater)

Two years’ experience in server management (windows or other)

Nine months experience of shared storage infrastructure

Three months experience with ESXi or equivalent training

Skills

This course provides instruction in the use of the following hardware/software technologies:

vMotion Migration

High Availability Clusters (HA Clusters)

Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)

Fault Tolerance

Shares, Limits, Reservation

Resource Pools

Alarms and Automating Tasks

Host Profiles and Storage Profiles

Monitoring and Reporting

Update Manager

Upgrading to vSphere 6.0

Outline

vSphere 6.0 ICM Part Two

Module 6: Clustering

Lesson 1: Clustering Basics

Basics

When to cluster

vMotion

Storage vMotion

vMotion Limitations

Lesson 2: Fault Tolerance

Basics

Requirements

Testing

Tips

Lesson 3: High Availability

Basics

Enabling HA

Host Monitoring

Admission Control

VM Monitoring

Datastore Heartbeating

Lesson 4: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Basics

Enabling DRS

Configuring Automation Levels

DRS Rules, Groups, and VM Overrides

DRS Scheduling

DRS Monitoring

DRS Power Management (DPM)

Storage DRS

Module 7: Monitoring and Profiles

Lesson 1: Monitoring and Reporting

Performance Charts

Tasks

Events

Hardware Status

Logs

Tags

Searches

Lesson 2: Alarms and Scheduled Tasks

Alarms

Configuration

Viewing

Clearing

Scheduled Tasks

Lesson 3: Profiles

Host Profiles

Overview

Creating

Attaching

Compliance

Remediation

Storage Policies

Create

Apply

Module 8: Advanced Resource Management and Basic Design

Lesson 1: Advanced Resource Management

Cluster Resources

Resource Pools

Resource Allocation

vApps

Resource Allocation

Resource Management

Lesson 2: Basic Design Principles

Discovery

Conceptual

Logical

Physical

Testing

Adjustments

Module 9: Patching and Upgrading vSphere

Lesson 1: Update Manager

Update Manager

Installation

Plug-in

Update Manager Interface

Lesson 2: Administrative View

Configurations Options:

Network Connectivity

Download Settings

Download Schedule

Notification Check

Virtual Machine Settings

ESXi Host Cluster Settings

Cluster Settings

PXE Boot

vApp

Lesson 3: Other Options for the Administrative View

Patch Repository

Imported ESXi Images

Events and Notifications

Baselines and Groups

Remediation

Module 10: Upgrading vSphere

Lesson 1: Update Requirements

Prerequisites

Licensing

Upgrade Path

System Requirements

Lesson 2: Manual Upgrade Process

ESXi Manual Upgrade

Process

Migration

Maintenance Mode

Media

Installation Options

Completion

Post Upgrade

Datastores

Lesson 3: vCenter Upgrade

General vCenter Upgrade Concerns

vCenter Server

vCenter Server Appliance

Host Client and Web client

Lesson 4: Update Manager Upgrades

Preconfiguration

Remediation

Actions

VM Tools and Hardware

Target Audience
This course is targeted towards systems engineers, system administrators, vSphere operators, ESXi operators and support personnel. The student should ideally be looking into virtualization technologies or have up to one year of experience dealing with a vSphere virtualized environment.